Mona hatoum white cube book

The art historian tamar garb has commented in her chapter on mona hatoum in the book women artists at the millennium that philosopher and writer walter benjamin made the brilliant assertion that the electric cord is the modern equivalent. They are mona hatoum, the palestinianbritish, longtime white cube artist and former yba, and the us artist, curator, author and activist harmony hammond, for whom it. Remains to be seen by mona hatoum at white cube bermondsey. Hatoums work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global. Mona hatoums poetic and political oeuvre is realised in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installation, sculpture, video, photography. White cube is a gallery owned and run by the art dealer jay jopling an old etonian and son of a conservative mp who, until september 2008, was married to artist sam taylorwood. Mona hatoum british of palestinian origin, born in beirut, lebanon 1952. Born in beirut in 1952 of palestinian parents, the british. Mona hatoums most striking works purge the air out of the room. Although born in lebanon, hatoum was ineligible for a lebanese identity card and does not identify as lebanese. Its title negates the latin terra firma or stable ground.

London tate moderns retrospective of mona hatoum spans the artists 35year career, and she has made a lot of art. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. As andrew renton has noted, although hatoum has consistently employed the shape of the cube in works such as socle du monde 1995, current disturbance 1996 or cageadeux 2002, this sculpture seems to be called cube not just to indicate what it is, but to mark how far from the form it is able to stray while retaining cognitive markers. Mona hatoum is a contemporary palestinianbritish installation and video artist.

Web and cube were first exhibited at galleria continua, san gimigniano, italy from 20 may to 2 september 2006colophon. Mona hatoum was born in beirut in 1952, to palestinian parents, and settled in london in 1975. Hatoums work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global condition, including systems of confinement, the architecture of surveillance and themes of. Louis, where it will be on view beginning april 2018. Mona hatoums works explore themes of home and displacement through the perspective of the palestinian exile, using common domestic objects that often, on closer inspection, reveal menacing qualities. As she grew up, her family did not support her desire to pursue art. Hatoum s work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global condition, including systems of confinement, the architecture of surveillance and themes of mobility and conflict.

The exhibition was called cocido y crudo, the raw and the cooked. Mona hatoum was born into a palestinian family in beirut and has lived and worked in london since 1975. Mona hatoum was born into a palestinian family in beirut, lebanon in 1952 and has lived in london since 1975. Historically, her work has tackled a range of issues from global conflict and surveillance to confinement and violence.

To say that hatoums work is electrifying is perhaps a bit corny, given the literally electric component of much of her work, but i think it is completely apt. Hatoums works mine geopolitics, gender, art history, and her own past. White cube, london acquired from the above by the present owner in april 2000. The palestinianlebanese artist rose to prominence with the harrowing sevenhour performance under siege 1982, where, naked and covered in liquid clay, she would slip onto her knees again and again while trying to stand up within a large transparent container. Mona hatoum, performance still, 198595, gelatin silver print mounted on aluminum, 30 116 x 42 12 inches 76. But at the same time hatoum conjures the powerfulness of playfulness in the face of all the absolutisms and determinisms, a state of possibility and creativity, voiced, for instance, in a book such as johan huizingas homo ludens 1938, where playfulness creates a different order, and where, when modern warfare is a disconnect from the deeply. Jay jopling white cube london november 1, 2006 language. Hatoums collection of sculptures and installations incorporates motifs of containment and violence, from steel cages and sandbag walls to. Mona hatoum was born in 1952 in beirut, lebanon, to palestinian parents.

Although born in lebanon, hatoum was ineligible for a lebanese identification card, and does not identify as lebanese. Mona hatoum remains 2017 photo courtesy white cube. Terra infirma is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue with essays by anna chave, adania shibli, rebecca solnit, and michelle white. In 1994, the centre pompidou in paris organised mona hatoums first solo exhibition in a museum. Bunker 25 february 2011 02 april 2011 white cube masons yard art categories events, exhibition mona hatoums poetic and political oeuvre is realised in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. After its premiere at the menil collection in houston, the artists first american survey show in over twenty years travels to the pulitzer arts foundation in st. Nature morte aux grenades takes its title from a stilllife painting by henri matisse, of pomegranates and other fruit on a table. Mona hatoums measures of distance is a reflection of. Born in lebanon in 1952 to palestinian parents and then stranded in london after the outbreak of war at home, hatoums themes were quick. She continued to draw throughout her childhood, though, illustrating her work from poetry and science classes.

The centres commitment to the artists work is now being renewed 21 years later with mona hatoum 24 june 28 september 2015, a major exhibition of the lebanesepalestinian artists oeuvre spanning her career from the 1970s to the present. Since the beginning of the 1990s her work has shifted towards installation and sculpture. Mona hatoum at alexander and bonin, nyc march 2011. A comprehensive exploration into 35 years of hatoums work in britain, from. In her work, hatoum has been consistently passionate about. Mona hatoum, hot spot, held at white cube, london, nov. Mona hatoums most recent exhibition, terra infirma, destabilizes universal notions of home, displacement, and global conflicts. White cube masons yard peter schuyff march 2020 16 may 2020. My first encounter with the work of mona hatoum was nearly 20 years ago, at the pompidou centre in paris. White cube by white cube and a great selection of related books. Nature morte aux grenades yale university art gallery. Mona hatoum at the centre pompidou in pictures art radar. Most of mona hatoums time over the past four years has been focused. See available sculpture, photographs, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist.

Jay joplingwhite cube london november 1, 2006 language. However, mona hatoum here plays with the homophone of grenade french for both pomegranate and grenade, and what sounds like an innocent subject is in fact a representation of deadly weapons. As reproduced in our new contemporary artist series monograph having been born in beirut into a palestinian family, but then having embarked on a longterm residency in london in 1975 when civil war broke out in lebanon, the subject of home has always been a fraught one for the artist mona hatoum. She first became known for a series of performance and video pieces which focused with great intensity on the body.

See more ideas about installation art, contemporary art and art. However, whereas minimalists evoked the cube form to argue that art has a reality distinct from that of the outside world, hatoum reenvisions the cube, by relying on the physical material of barbed wire to emphasize the connection and disconnection at times between art. Remains to be seen white cube is pleased to present an exhibition by mona hatoum. Mona hatoum was born in 1952 in beirut, lebanon to palestinian parents.

Mona hatoum exhibition remains to be seen at the white. Photo white cube theo christelis hot spot stand 2018, a steel globe delineating the continents of the earth in red neon light, derives from the work hatoum originally created back in 2006. The latest exhibition from beirutborn, sometime turner prizenominee mona hatoum best known for sending a camera through her inner tubes and projecting the results explores themes of displacement and geographical and political tension. She has participated in numerous important group exhibitions including the turner prize 1995, venice biennale 1995 and 2005, documenta, kassel 2002 and 2017, biennale of sydney 2006, istanbul biennial 1995 and 2011 and moscow biennale of. She has participated in numerous important group exhibitions including the turner prize 1995, venice biennale 1995 and 2005, documenta, kassel 2002 and 2017, biennale of sydney 2006, istanbul biennial 1995 and 2011 and moscow biennale of contemporary art 20. Dinos and jake chapman, tracey emin, lucian freud, antony gormley, sarah lucas, marcus harvey, mona hatoum, damien hirst, gary hume, marc quinn, sam taylorwood and gavin turk. I met mona hatoum in december 1994 when we were installing our work, side by side, at the reina sophia in madrid. It was first opened in a small, square room in may 1993 in duke street, st jamess, a traditional art dealing street in the west end of london. Remains to be seen, opening at white cube bermondsey next week. London, white cube, mona hatoum, grater divide, may 24 june 22, 2002 another example exhibited.

In that location there was a gallery rule that an artist. Mona hatoum, white cube, bermondsey culture whisper. This book focuses on three new works created for the tate. Hatoums work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global condition, including systems of confinement, the. It takes the form of a paravent or roomdivider, one full of huge holes, and it demonstrates that an everyday kitchen object might be a kind of screen. Consider, for example, performance artist mona hatoums variation on discord and divisions, which for us evoked jeremiahs symbolic uses of his poetic books see plates 2 and 3. In speaking of her process, the artist talks of how psychology enables art to.

Mona hatoum is wary of simplistic, readymade judgments, all the more so because she has often had to endure their extreme brutality. The exhibition will travel to the pulitzer arts foundation in st. The first presentation of her work in london since tate modern in 2016, it includes new and recent installation, sculpture and works on paper. Her sculpture, video, drawings, and installations have been widely exhibited throughout the world. Indeed the electric current ran through mona hatoums whole show at tate modern.

Mona hatoum has been selected as the winner of the 10th hiroshima art prize. Mona hatoums grater divide 2002 is a cheesegrater nearly seven feet high. The hiroshima art prize was established by the city of hiroshima to recognize the achievements of artists who spread the spirit of hiroshima, which seeks everlasting world peace, and aim to appeal to a wider world through contemporary art. Gift of barbara lee, the barbara lee collection of art by women. Mona hatoums most famous work lies in wait around the first corner of this show, a spectacle of fleshy revulsion and creeping claustrophobia.